[R] "The system cannot find the file specified"

Mark Knecht markknecht at gmail.com
Thu Oct 29 14:52:01 CET 2009


Is 2.10 out? I'll give it a try.

Thanks,
Mark

On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 6:45 AM, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch at stats.uwo.ca> wrote:
> On 29/10/2009 9:43 AM, Mark Knecht wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 6:39 AM, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch at stats.uwo.ca>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 29/10/2009 9:11 AM, Mark Knecht wrote:
>>>>
>>>> What is the problem here? I did an install package from the Rgui menu.
>>>> Windows Vista
>>>
>>> normalizePath uses the Windows functions GetFullPathName and
>>> GetLongPathName
>>> to clean up paths, and one of them returned the error you saw.  Does that
>>> path exist on your system?
>>>
>>> Duncan Murdoch
>>
>> <SNIP>
>>>>
>>>> Error in normalizePath(path) :
>>>>  path[1]="C:\Program Files\R\R-2.9.2\library/QRMlib": The system
>>>> cannot find the file specified
>>>>
>>>> <SNIP>
>>
>> "C:\Program Files\R\R-2.9.2\library" does exist
>>
>> "C:\Program Files\R\R-2.9.2\library/QRMlib" does not.
>>
>> As it was the QRMlib package being installed it doesn't surprise me
>> that it's not there, but please note the '/' instead of '\' like the
>> rest of the path.
>>
>> I've seen this a number of times recently. This is the first I've posted
>> here.
>
> Do you have write permission in C:\Program Files\R\R-2.9.2\library?  It
> could be that the installer just tried to create the QRMlib subdir, and
> failed, and that's why it doesn't exist.
>
> What happens in 2.10.0?
>
> Duncan Murdoch
>




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